By Kelsey Block “Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” –Mary Oliver On Thursday, March 31, the Historical Society of Greater Lansing hosted “Michigan, My Michigan,” a celebrationContinue reading “RCAH Center for Poetry, Lansing Poetry Club making the bid for Michigan Poet Laureate”
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Poem of the Week: How You Might Approach A Foal
like a lagoon, like a canoe, like you are part earth and part moon, like deja vu, like you had never been to the outer brink or the inner Louvre, like hay, like air, like your mother just this morning had combed a dream into your hair, like you had never heard a sermon orContinue reading “Poem of the Week: How You Might Approach A Foal”
Center for Poetry, College of Music host Voicing Poetry II
By Kelsey Block On Tuesday, March 15, the RCAH Center for Poetry and the MSU College of Music hosted the second performance in an ongoing collaboration that pairs the work of composition students with the work of local poets. Voicing Poetry II featured ten performances – almost double from last year – by a numberContinue reading “Center for Poetry, College of Music host Voicing Poetry II”
Center for Poetry plans to build Little Free Library
By: Alexis Stark This spring, the Center for Poetry is constructing a Little Free Library to be installed in East Lansing and filled with wonderful books of poetry. The Little Free Library Organization established its roots in 2009, when Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisconsin built a small wooden schoolhouse on a post and put itContinue reading “Center for Poetry plans to build Little Free Library”
The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU 